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Upon a Lady Fair But Fruitless

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Twice has Pudica been a bride, and led
By holy Hymen to the nuptial bed.
Two youths she’s known thrice two, and twice three years;
Yet not a lily from the bed appears:
Nor will; for why, Pudica this may know,
Trees never bear unless they first do blow.

Published in Hesperides
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